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JANUARY 14
Padan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Psalm 7:9–17
Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of 9 Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked
Jacob and Esau. come to an end,
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Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and But establish the just;
sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself For the righteous God tests the hearts
a wife from there, and that as he blessed him and minds.
he gave him a charge, saying, “You shall not 10 My defense is of God,
take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,” Who saves the upright
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his in heart.
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mother and had gone to Padan Aram. Also
Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not 11 God is a just judge,
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please his father Isaac. So Esau went to And God is angry with the wicked
Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of every day.
Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of 12 If he does not turn back,
Nebajoth, to be his wife in addition to the He will sharpen His sword;
wives he had. He bends His bow and makes
10 Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and it ready.
went toward Haran. So he came to a certain 13 He also prepares for Himself
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place and stayed there all night, because the instruments of death;
sun had set. And he took one of the stones of He makes His arrows into
that place and put it at his head, and he lay fiery shafts.
down in that place to sleep. Then he 14 Behold, the wicked brings forth
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dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on iniquity;
the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and Yes, he conceives trouble and brings
there the angels of God were ascending and forth falsehood.
descending on it. 15 He made a pit and dug it out,
13 And behold, the LORD stood above it and And has fallen into the ditch which he
said: “I am the LORD God of Abraham your made.
father and the God of Isaac; the land on which 16 His trouble shall return upon his own
you lie I will give to you and your descendants. head,
14 Also your descendants shall be as the dust of And his violent dealing
the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west shall come down on
and the east, to the north and the south; and in his own crown.
you and in your seed all the families of the earth 17 I will praise the LORD according
shall be blessed. Behold, I am with you and to His righteousness,
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will keep you wherever you go, and will bring And will sing praise to the name
you back to this land; for I will not leave you of the LORD Most High.
until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
16 Proverbs 3:11–12
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and
said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I 11 My son, do not despise the chastening
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did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, of the LORD,
“How awesome is this place! This is none Nor detest His correction;
other than the house of God, and this is the 12 For whom the LORD loves
gate of heaven!” He corrects,
Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and Just as a father the son in whom he
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took the stone that he had put at his head, set delights.
it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
And he called the name of that place Bethel;
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but the name of that city had been Luz previ-
ously. Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If 3:11,12 not despise…chastening. Since
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God will be with me, and keep me in this way even the wisest of God’s children are subject
that I am going, and give me bread to eat and to sin,there is necessity of God’s fatherly disci-
clothing to put on, so that I come back to my pline to increase wisdom and blessing. Such
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father’s house in peace, then the LORD shall be correction should not be resisted.
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my God. And this stone which I have set as a
pillar shall be God’s house, and of all that You
give me I will surely give a tenth to You.”
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